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To: MythMan who wrote (397514)	11/23/2009 2:03:31 PM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 436258

Mark Faber in November: "I have explained in earlier reports that due to massive government interventions into the free market we would move into extremely volatile (and largely unpredictable) economic and financial conditions" <G>

To: MythMan who wrote (397514)	11/23/2009 2:33:12 PM
From: Real Man	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

This sounds like Westy -g- "The events of the last two years have demonstrated that risk management cannot afford to stop at the 95th percentile. We need to find a way to include very unlikely, but potentially high impact, events," Watson Wyatt said in the report. Its 15 extreme risks were ranked in order as of mid-year. They were economic depression, hyperinflation, excessive leverage, a currency crisis, a banking crisis, sovereign default, climate change, political crisis, insurance crisis, protectionism, disunity in Europe, the end of capitalism, the end of fiat money, war and a killer pandemic. finance.yahoo.com ---------------- As for the end of capitalism, Watson Wyatt said gold was the best holding, but admitted that in such circumstance "investors should probably worry more about the return "of' their investments than the return 'on' their investments."